Bibliography

Below is a running list of publications and working papers that use the Census Tree links. To include your work in this list, please use our Contact form.

• Kasey Buckles, Joseph Price, Zach Ward, and Haley Wilbert. “Family Trees and Falling Apples: Intergenerational Mobility Estimates from U.S. Genealogy Data.” Working paper (2023). Presentation at 2023 NBER Summer Institute can be viewed here.

• Joseph Price, Kasey Buckles, Jacob Van Leeuwen, and Isaac Riley. “Combining Family History and Machine Learning to Link Historical Records: The Census Tree Data Set.” Explorations in Economic History, 80, 101391. 2021.

• Kasey Buckles, Adrian Haws, Joseph Price, and Haley Wilbert. “Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data: The Census Tree Project.” Available as NBER Working Paper #31671. 2023.